Resolved How to repair Outlook 2003 account?

Hi all. Been having trouble with my W7\Outlook 2003 mail for some time - it asks for my password 5 or 6 times before it finally connects.

Tried various unsuccessful fixes from my ISP's helpdesk and the guy finally recommended that I remove my account and recreate it.

At first I thought that'd be no big deal, but then I realized I could lose some settings and maybe even mail and addresses etc.

Is there a way to recreate an Outlook account so that all settings are retained? Or will I have to completely rebuild it and reconfigure all the settings again?

Thanks

 

Have you tried this?

Repair/Re-install Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010

I would back up everything just to be sure that nothing went wrong.

 

Thanks MrBill. The 'Detect and Repair' option that the link describes is more directly available from Outlook's Help menu. I tried that first thing but it didn't change the password recognition error. I'm beginning to think that a complete reinstall of Outlook will be the only way to fix the problem.

 

Thanks Arie but it didn't fix the password problem. I installed Thunderbird and that has no issues at all. Wish I'd done it sooner.
Cheers